The one curious thing out of today in Turkey is that around 15,000 college professors/instructors were let go.
Normally, classes would start up in eight weeks for the fall semester. Something says to me that it’ll be impossible to conduct business as usual in Turkey if you were a college student.
As for the professors? I suspect that once the smoke clears....Germany will grin and offer up posts to every single one of them and bring them to teach in Germany. Erdogan will never get them back, and a bunch of students will decide to leave Turkey for Germany by next spring. Maybe this is all in Erdogan’s master plan, but it would really start to create a brain-drain within Turkey.
They let go the profs because of suspected ties to Gulen... Gulen’s schools are likely where they are from.
Education in Iran
EXCERPTS:
The 1979 revolution continued the country’s emphasis on education with the new government putting its own stamp on the process. The most important change was the Islamization of the education system. All students were segregated by sex. In 1980, the Cultural Revolution Committee was formed to oversee the institution of Islamic values in education. An arm of the committee, the Center for Textbooks (composed mainly of clerics), produced 3,000 new college-level textbooks reflecting Islamic views by 1983.[7] Teaching materials based on Islam were introduced into the primary grades within six months of the revolution.
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The country’s 16 universities were closed after the 1979 revolution and were then reopened gradually between 1982 and 1983 under Islamic supervision.
While the universities were closed, the Cultural Revolution Committee investigated professors and teachers and dismissed those who were believers in Marxism, liberalism, and other “imperialistic” ideologies. The universities reopened with Islamic curricula.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Iran
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The main reason to purge all those teachers, is to replace them with Wahabbis (adherents of the Hanbali Fiqh).
Just because Erdogan is purging them, does not mean that they are secular. It is more likely that they are Gulenists, who follow the traditional islamic school of thought of the Ottoman Empire - the Hanafi school of jurisprudence (Figh).
Gulenists are also islamists, with a long term subversive agenda - Germany would not be well served by importing a bunch of them.